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Well it's FUD in the sense that I really, actually feel Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about using any code under GPLv3 license. There's good reason to [https://www.google.com/search?q=gplv3+for+commercial+use&oq=... ] worry. Large companies I've worked in before this (with teams of technically savvy lawyers on staff) have been known to promulgate an outright ban of such open source software in their production stack.

Now, nothing makes me happier than being proven wrong in this case (especially with the static linking exception AND this little nugget "It is the intention of the ZeroMQ community to move gradually towards the Mozilla Public License v2, as a replacement for the current LGPLv3 + static link exception" ).

So in a sense, my comment here has had a positive result not just for me but also for anyone else reading this thread and worried about the license. So on balance, I'd credit this subthread more for clearing up of FUD than the reverse ;-)



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